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AUMUS 468 - Ethnomusicology: Issues and Concepts

★ 3 (fi 6) (either term, 0-3s-0) Introduction to the discipline of ethnomusicology through the exploration of various related issues, theories and methodologies in regard to “world” and popular music. Topics may include fieldwork methodologies and issues, music and identity, definitions of “tradition”, issues of representation and appropriation, music and place, transmission processes, music and gender, the relationship of music to spiritual practices, the impact of contemporary recording technologies, and the intersections of musicology, music theory and ethnomusicology. Prerequisites: AUMUS 170 and third-year standing or consent of the instructor.